A man driving down a hillside road suddenly realizes that his car's brakes don't work. Traveling at a high speed, the Alfa romeo Brera crashes into a toll station. The man dies but leaves a mysterious dying message: "Tanabata kyo."
Sixth Murder
Location:Old Hakone Turnpike (the boundary separating Kanagawa and Shizuoka) - Hayakawa Toll Station
Victim:Tsutomu Ryuzaki
Age:28 years old
Cause of death:Car accident
Suspects:Unknown culprit
Ryuzaki's brakes were tampered with. He crashed into a toll station at the base of a steep hill.
A mysterious Mahjong tile next to the body links this case to six other homicide cases in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, and other places in Japan. Because of the Mahjong tiles left beside each victim, the police conclude that the same person or organization committed these large-scale murders. The police of prefectures across Japan unite to find the murderer.
Location:Shizuoka Prefecture, Izu City - Mount Sukumo
Victim:Kozo Zaitsu
Age:61 years old
Cause of death:Stab wound
Suspects:Unknown culprit
After a police conference about this case, Conan discovers a police officer walking out of the building and entering a black Porsche. He concludes that a Black Organization member is disguised as a police officer and has infiltrated the meeting. Conan is left wondering which officer is the fake and what interest the Black Organization has in the case.
On the day of Tanabata, Conan corners Vermouth in the underground parking lot of a shopping mall and interrogates her. She says that the Black Organization needs a memory chip and has a new member, "Irish".
Conan employs the help of Heiji Hattori and tries to solve the serial murder case by following the dying message lead. He and Heiji find out that two years ago, there was a fire accident in a hotel in Kyoto, and a young woman named Nanako Honjou died. The elevator could only hold seven, but eight people needed to escape. Nanako wasn't on the last elevator and couldn't escape. Conan tracks down her neighbor, Shun Sawamura, and asks him some questions.
Burned Hotel - Accident (Past)
Location:Vega Hotel, Kyoto
Victim:Nanako Honjou
Age:23 years old
Time:Two years ago
Cause of death:Smoke inhalation
Conan finds out that Nanako and her boyfriend, Kosuke Mizutani, often went star gazing together. Conan realizes that the crime scenes are ordered like the star constellation Ursa Major, making the last crime scene the Tohto Tower. The police also figure out the pattern of the crime scenes and leave for Tohto Tower.
On the way, Detective Sato and Takagi make a detour to Beika Woods after receiving a call from Professor Agasa. The Detective Boys find Matsumoto inside a small house in the woods.
When the police arrive at a deserted Tokyo Tower, Conan sneaks past them and confronts Mizutani, who confesses to the crimes and intends to commit suicide by poison.
Mizutani thought one of the seven must have pushed Nanako out of the elevator during the hotel fire, but Nanako's brother, Kazuki Honjou, who was one of the seven in the elevator, shows up and testifies that she voluntarily stepped out. Conan reveals that the real murderer is Kazuki Honjou and not Mizutani because Mizutani would never commit murder to stain the memory of Nanako and his precious stars. However, Kazuki, obsessively fond of his younger sister, decided after her death to take revenge on all those who "took her away from him", including Mizutani.
To this purpose, Kazuki tricked Mizutani to become a scapegoat by persuading him to take the blame for the revenge murders. The mahjong stones left at the murder scenes were deliberate clues to point the police investigation into Mizutani's direction, with the final stone pinpointing the location of Tokyo Tower - a fact which both Conan and Kogoro have managed to deduce.
The Culprit Ready to Kill Conan with Knife but Matsumoto shoot the Handgun to Protect
Kazuki threatens Conan and Mizutani with a knife; but then Matsumoto interferes and incapacitates Kazuki. Conan, however, realizes that Superintendent Matsumoto is Irish in perfect disguise. Irish claims that he doesn't want to kill Conan. He says he knows Conan's true identity but didn't tell anyone because he hates the Black Organization for killing his friend, Pisco. Conan wants the memory chip, but Irish refuses to hand it over.
Kidnapping
Location:Abandoned cottage in Chiba Park, Chuo Ward, Chiba
Irish locks Matsumoto in one of the cottage and drugs him to make him unconscious, so he could assume his identity.
Soon Ran arrives at Tokyo Tower and finds Irish, who is still disguised as Matsumoto. She makes some good karate hits, but a kick to his face tore off part of his mask, thus surprising her. Irish uses this to his advantage and overpowers Ran.
Irish and Conan move outside near the top, and a helicopter with Gin, Vodka, Korn, and Chianti arrives. Irish shows them the chip, and Gin orders Chianti to shoot Irish and the chip. Seriously injured by the bullet, Irish is barely alive. Conan tries to drag him to safety, but Gin notices Conan and tries to shoot him. Irish protects Conan and dies.
Cornered at the top, Conan escapes by attaching his expanding suspenders to a light to act as a bungee to jump off the tower. The light then slingshots back at the Black Organization's helicopter, damaging the engine. The Black Organization manages to fly away, but the helicopter crashes soon after.
When Conan is walking with Haibara through the woods to a boarded up house talking about the case, Conan mentions that Irish died before he told Conan where Matsumoto is and thanks to the Detective Boys that Matsumoto was found. Conan remembers Irish's last words: "Kudo Shinichi... Keep... Coming After Us..", before he replies in his mind that he will do what Irish wanted until the day he destroyed them, meaning he's got another reason to fight the Black Organization.
In other languages
Language
Title
Translation
Catalan
El perseguidor negre
The black chaser
Chinese (Simplified)
漆黑的追踪者
The Raven Chaser
French
Le chasseur noir de jais
The Raven Hunter
German
Der nachtschwarze Jäger
The Dark Hunter
Italian
... E le stelle stanno a guardare
... And the Stars Look Down
Spanish
El perseguidor negro
The black chaser
Thai
ปริศนานักล่าทรชนทมิฬ
The Mystery of The Ruthless Culprit Chaser
Vietnamese
Truy lùng Tổ Chức Áo Đen
Pursuit of the Black Organization
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Trivia
In the introduction, there is a brief scene showing Gin and Vodka confronting Akemi Miyano in a flashback. In this flashback, Gin was using his right hand to hold the gun as he had in the episode this scene was referring to, though it is known Gin is left-handed. This is the only other time Gin has been mistakenly portrayed as right-handed.
According to the police report, the items Irish dumped out on the table were a pendant on a chain (Jinno), a small flower print bag tied at the top (Shizuko), a purple amulet bag (Masaaki), a black compact case (Azusa), a small brown snap bag as guitar accessory (Kozo), and a small tube of red paint (Sumire). It is unclear why Ryuzaki's mascot doll was not included. The memory card was found in the omamori bag, then the Black Organization NOC was the third victim.
As a tradition started with the Full Score of Fear and continued with all subsequent movies, there is a Magic File that ties into the plot of the Raven Chaser.
'The Raven Chaser' grossed more than 3.5 billion yen.
Tsutomu Ryuzaki's car that was involved in the accident is a 2006 Rosso Rubino pearl Alfa Romeo Brera.
The woman in the live action ending theme is Ayano Ogata.
Vermouth's car parked in the Beika Shopping Mall is 1971 yellow De Tomaso Pantera GT5.
Irish's assumed identity could be deduced by the viewers from the beginning, since when Matsumoto talks with Kogoro, he doesn't seem to know who is Ran, although the real superintendent is supposed to be aware of it, since they first met in A June Bride Murder Case and she asked him about his daughter Sayuri.
This is the movie where they started the tradition of inviting a special guest voice actor to promote the movie. In this case it was the singer DAIGO in the role of Kosuke Mizutani. It was his first role as a voice actor.
From this point on DAIGO's band BREAKERZ started to provide songs for Detective Conan openings and endings.
This case, when Yamamura met Yamato and Uehara for the first time, is cited in file 1082, but the movies are not canon, so they must have met in another case, albeit not shown in the manga.
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